The volume of oil hauled on Oregon’s rails increased 250 percent in 2013. A sharp increase in crude shipments along a rail route through Portland, Scappoose, St. Helens and Rainier drove the jump. The jump has increased spill risks across much of the state and caught environmental and rail safety regulators unprepared.

Portland police Thursday identified three men taken into custody after Wednesday's predawn burglary of a Southwest Portland business, an ensuing police chase and shootout that left one Portland officer wounded and his canine partner fatally shot.

Reporter Jeff Manning writes a profile describing Pat Maloney as an "an unapologetic, unreconstructed union man." The "reform" candidate seeks to replace the current national leadership of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.

Police say 18-year-old Dallas Delynn urinated Wednesday into the Mt. Tabor Reservoir. Portland said it was going to drain it. That led many people nationally and locally, including 80 percent of voters on an Oregonian poll, to question that decision. No matter, Portland still, despite the water testing clean of urine-related toxins, is going to drain it.